Holocaust History Project from Brittanica

Holocaust history resources from Encyclopedia Brittanica, with 5 parts covering many subjects of interest to those studying the Holocaust.

More than a hundred articles comprise Britannica’s coverage of the Holocaust — including information that ranges from the rise of Hitler and the meaning of the swastika to a survey of the camps and the Holocaust in art and memory — and many of the entries have been written by renowned scholar and author Dr. Michael Berenbaum, the former director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Britannica’s coverage includes biographies, essays, photographs, and videos as well as discussion prompts appropriate for the classroom.

View paintings by survivor Jan Komski. His personal history is full of remarkable events, including being part of the very first prisoner transport to arrive in Auschwitz, and being part of one of the most famous escapes from the camp. Check out Voices of Shoah now, an audio documentary narrated by Elliot Gould.